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Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 538

Git branch is always ahead

I have a master branch and a development branch. I'm currently in my development branch.

When I do git push I get the following suggestions:

fatal: The upstream branch of your current branch does not match the name of your current branch.  To push to the upstream branch on the remote, use
git push origin HEAD:master

To push to the branch of the same name on the remote, use
git push origin development

So I type git push origin development to push to the development branch. But I simple want to type git push to push to the current branch (development).

When I type git status I get this message:

Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 26 commits.

So I did a pull request from development to master and merge the development branch into the master branch. But I still get the message "Your branch is ahead of ... ".

What am I doing wrong over here?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 375

Answers (1)

Duncan
Duncan

Reputation: 95652

When you created your development branch you somehow set it to track origin/master instead of origin/development.

Run git branch -vv to see your branches and which upstream branches they are tracking.

You can correct the upstream setting for the development branch with:

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/development development

Upvotes: 2

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